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Own Quotes by James F. Cooper
- Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and…
- The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal;…
- If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
- When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
- All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to…
- A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own…
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